#discretion

Depart from discretion when it interferes with duty. ↗

— Hannah More

#discretion #duty #interferes

Family entertainment is really very necessary in our culture. Look how profitable they are. It's almost not discretionary. You need to take your family to the movies. ↗

— Gary Ross

#culture #discretionary #entertainment #family #how

And so we go over the cliff fiscally, and our Republican friends try to pin the blame on discretionary domestic spending, including spending for security. We pass budget resolutions that fall far short. ↗

— David E. Price

#budget #cliff #discretionary #domestic #fall

Why can she not influence him more, when she is privileged to draw so near to him?” I asked myself. “Surely she cannot truly like him, or not like him with true affection! If she did, she need not coin her smiles so lavishly, flash her glances so unremittingly, manufacture airs so elaborate, graces so multitudinous. ↗

— Charlotte Brontë

#love #romance #woman #love

By placing discretion in the hands of an official to grant or deny a license, such a statute creates a threat of censorship that by its very existence chills free speech. ↗

— Harry A. Blackmun

#chills #creates #deny #discretion #existence

It is the custom of the Roman Church which I unworthily serve with the help of God, to tolerate some things, to turn a blind eye to some, following the spirit of discretion rather than the rigid letter of the law. ↗

— Pope Gregory VII

#blind eye #church #custom #discretion #eye

I know of no safe depository of the ultimate powers of the society but the people themselves; and if we think them not enlightened enough to exercise their control with a wholesome discretion, the remedy is not to take it from them but to inform their discretion. ↗

— Thomas Jefferson

#depository #discretion #enlightened #enough #exercise

So long as the laws remain such as they are today, employ some discretion: loud opinion forces us to do so; but in privacy and silence let us compensate ourselves for that cruel chastity we are obliged to display in public. ↗

— Marquis de Sade

#compensate #cruel #discretion #display #employ

there was great difference between persons and, discretion did not always accompany years nor was youth always with out it ↗

— Benjamin Franklin

#life #life

The fleet sailed to its war base in the North Sea, headed not so much for some rendezvous with glory as for rendezvous with discretion. ↗

— Barbara Tuchman

#base #discretion #fleet #glory #headed